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... in Magic Kaito

Manga

Important fundamental handbooks for policemen. One of the books on Ginzo Nakamori's office desk in Chapter 12 (Magic Kaito Volume 3, Chapter 1) is Volume 1 of Yaiba.

Buji TV must have one hell of a program. The duo commenting on the duel between Kaitou Kid and Saguru Hakuba in Chapter 16 (Magic Kaito Volume 3, Chapter 3) are "Ana Shioji of Buji TV" and her absurdly loyal cameraman from Yaiba, who debuted in Chapter 49 (Yaiba Volume 5, Chapter 10) and also reported about the battle between Yaiba Kurogane and Takeshi Onimaru on Onimaru Castle, as well as about the mysteriously appearing pyramids all over Tokyo, besides other things. There is a reporter similar to her in Chapter 33 of Magic Kaito (Magic Kaito Volume 5, Chapter 5), too, but it's left unclear whether it's supposed to be Ana again. Furthermore, Kid uses a pocket TV by ONY in this chapter while crawling through the air vents. After Takeshi Onimaru took control of Japan in Yaiba, a lot of company names were "oni-fied", with almost all of them being plays on brand names from real life - with SONY of course becoming "ONY". Gosho Aoyama later on integrated this fictionalized company in Magic Kaito and Detective Conan, as well as their adaptions and derivatives, too.

Kaitō Boy vs. Samurai Shōnin. In Chapter 18 (Magic Kaito Volume 3, Chapter 5), Kaitou Kid announces to steal a treasure sword from the Mine family and struggles to get past its several family members, including Sayaka, Shizuka and Grandma Mine, who he manages to woo in the end, before meeting Musashi Miyamoto and, last but not least, Yaiba Kurogane himself fighting him with the Raijin-ken and the help of Kagetora, before being blasted out of the sky by Takeshi Onimaru and his minions. This story was originally a one shot just called "K∀ITO" (a portmanteau of the "Kaito" from Magic Kaito and the Latinized logo "Y∀IBA") and was featured in Shōnen Sunday's 30th Anniversary Special Magazine in 1989 after an editor asked Gosho to draw a self-contained story for this special occasion, deciding for this crossover since he loved similar collaborations like Mazinger Z vs. Devilman since he was young. The chapter didn't belong to either series, since it's explicitly non-canon (or, technically seen, it's a part of both franchises), but was later included as a bonus chapter in Volume 3 of Magic Kaito most people know it as. It was later adapted as a Detective Conan OVA and extended by a plot integrating the characters from it.

"It's a ONY." Aoko Nakamori's mobile phone in Chapter 34 - 36 ("Sun Halo", Magic Kaito Volume 5, Chapter 6 - 8) is an ONY Smartphone model.

Magic Kaito 1412 Anime

Sayaka-chan? In Episode 7: Kaito Kuroba's Busy Holiday, a girl heavily reminiscent of Sayaka Mine comes into play for a short scene - she's got almost exactly the same hairstyle as her after the three-year-timeskip (same length, same color, the parted bangs, the same disheveled back hair and the long hair over her temples), wears a seifuku similar to her during most of Yaiba's run while attending Ekoda High School (like Sayaka does in Yaiba Volume 24), is friends with Keiko Momoi and highly interested in the relationship between Kaito Kuroba and Aoko Nakamori. She is never named, but... this is either one big coincidence or we have a pretty clever producer, author and/or character designer here who wanted to create a nod to Gosho's previous series by having a cameo.

... in Monster Hunter

(Monster Hunter also obviously isn't by Gosho. :D)

The Haō-ken as equipment in Monster Hunter 3rd. During a special collaboration event with Shōnen Sunday for the game Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Yaiba Kurogane's Haō-ken (Supreme King Sword) was obtainable and Felynes could be dressed in the demonic armor of Takeshi Onimaru.

... in Zero's Tea Time

Cat cratch fever. In TIME.9 (Zero's Tea Time Volume 1, Time 9), after falling down a flight of stairs, Rei Furuya's pup Haro meets Kuro Neko Dokuro, a stray cat and antagonist from a short arc during Chapter 164 - 167 of Yaiba (Yaiba Volume 16, Chapter 10 - Yaiba Volume 17, Chapter 2), whom Yaiba Kurogane and Sayaka Mine were encountering while they were shrunk and he was menacing a bunch of mice. It seems like he didn't improve much since then: He scratches poor Haro's face open. The Mangaka of Zero's Tea Time, Takahiro Arai, confirmed that he asked Gosho Aoyama about using that character in this chapter.

Player character Yuya. The Cedar Pollen Soldier. The Centipede Soldier. TIME.19 - 20 (Zero's Tea Time Volume 2, Time 9 - 10) are chock-full of Yaiba references, thanks to the game Yuya Kazami is playing: The protagonist "Yuya" is a dead ringer for an adult Yaiba Kurogane (looking a lot like his father Kenjuro) in a Samurai armor, wearing the Raijin-ken (Thunder God Sword) and the Fuujin-ken (Wind God Sword, originally used by Takeshi Onimaru). Yaiba always wanted to be a Samurai like his father, explaining the choice of armor for this Easter Egg. The first boss they fight is the android Gold from Chapters 201 - 207 (Yaiba Volume 20, Chapter 3 - 9), also named "Boss Monster Gold" in Kazami's game. One of the objects in the storage room of the game in TIME.20 looks like a stylized version of Empress Kaguya's fusion with planet Earth from Chapters 162 - 163 (Yaiba Volume 16, Chapter 8 - 9). The second boss they fight is the Cedar Pollen Soldier from Chapters 182 - 184 (Yaiba Volume 18, Chapter 6 - 8). The third boss they beat is the many-armed Centipede Soldier of the Underworld from Chapter 201 (Yaiba Volume 20, Chapter 3).

Azusa's ONY phone. The mobile phone used by Azusa Enomoto at the end of TIME.20 is an ONY. After Takeshi Onimaru took control of Japan in Yaiba, a lot of company names were "oni-fied", with almost all of them being plays on brand names from real life - with SONY of course becoming "ONY". Gosho Aoyama later on integrated this fictionalized company in Magic Kaito and Detective Conan, as well as their adaptions and their derivatives, too.

3rd Base 4th

... in Detective Conan

Kohnan High School in 3rd Base 4th. Yoko Okino and Akiyoshi Fujie are identified as alumni of (the fictional) Kohnan High School in FILE.8 (Volume 1, File 8) - the same school Shigeo Nagashima, Yutaka Enatsu and their friends attend in 3rd Base 4th.

Kohnan High School's banner on Shizuka's old photo. The horizontal school banner in the upper left corner of Shizuka Hattori's old photo from FILE.276 - 278 (Volume 28, File 3 - 5), which also features Yaiba Kurogane's mother Michiko, reads "南高校", which is cut off to the left. It probably reads "港南高校" (Kōnan Kōkō) in full, which of course is, again, the Kohnan High School.

Shigeo Nagashima in Detective Conan. In Volume 43 (fittingly enough) and 44, Conan Edogawa, Ran and her father Kogoro Mouri, as well as Heiji Hattori und Kazuha Toyama watch a baseball game at Koushien, played by the leading teams from 3rd Base 4th, hailing from Kohnan and Ohgane High School respectively, who want to do a rematch of their game from the finale of their own Manga, which is referred to as "one year ago". Characters from the series who appear are the protagonist Shigeo Nagashima and his rival Kazuhisa Inao and some of their teammates, their coach, Shigeo's friend Yutaka, as well as her father got some cameos, too. In a crossover gag Gosho also uses with Kaitou Kid and Soshi Okita, Shigeo reminds Ran of Shinichi Kudo, since all of them look very much alike.